vendredi 22 juin 2012

I have spoken over time about the loss of my Russian poet and photographer friend, Aleksey Dayey, who died in his thirties from food poisoning, after having beaten cancer only month earlier.
Terry Clark, a singer-songwriter from the UK, posted information on him on his web site. Aleksey was coming to SF to film a documentary on my life, and Terry wrote three songs for the movie.
Ginger has copied the information (with approval of Terry) to a blog site she has created for me (which she administers). You can access the site by clicking on the link below.

Juniel was working on words and images. He made his first cut-ups of recordings in 1973, without relation to Burroughs and Gysin whom he had never heard of then.

Among them, he was using photo romances as a base, cutting the text to divert its meaning and change it into a parody, a funny 2nd degree unexpected story. The recording "Tard de veau" is a short example of the result he could get. See the one in published inObjectifs 7 .

He also wrote poems, stories of elves and fairies in enchanted forests, very musical, impossible to tranlate : some recordings at

Catalan by adoption (Pyrénées-Orientales), Électrophone, alias Titou, alias Antoine Sauvêtre, first played in several rock groups at the end of the seventies. Nowadays he expresses his music through writing: poems, songs and short stories, while continuing to compose during his spare time.

Sites

"The variety of noises is infinite. If today, when we have perhaps a thousand different machines, we can distinguish a thousand different noises, tomorrow, as new machines multiply, we will be able to distinguish ten, twenty, or thirty thousand different noises, not merely in a simply imitative way, but to combine them according to our imagination." [The Art of Noises (L'arte dei Rumori) is a Futurist manifesto, written by Luigi Russolo in a 1913 letter to friend and Futurist composer Francesco Balilla Pratella]

A growing compilation of new music and sound collages built around Don Tyler's tracks and augmented by the spoken words and sample choices of Jeremy Gluck, featuring a number of new voice artists and vocalists.

"It comes from that same place where Lovecraft's black stars are. It's not experimental if there's intent involved." - Don Tyler
Contact: softworld@softworldmusic.com

Galleries :

"April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land..."

Here's a quick update over the new artwork that's appeared over the last 4 months.
Plenty of new artwork from Paul Watson, Alice Kemp, and Françoise Duvivier. Read on for images and links to the new galleries:

Mark Hachem Gallery - Beirut is proud to present “FINE PIXELS” by Lebanese artist RICARDO MBARKHO. The exhibition opens on Tuesday, 15 of May 2012 and will run until Tuesday, 29 of May 2012.

The exhibition will showcase Ricardo Mbarkho’s images: The artist manipulates different layers of significations by investigating multiple questions related to language, communication, creative industries, history of art as well as the visual representation within the sociopolitical sphere. Mbarkho’s images are made from texts. The artist uses the computer as a tool to transcend texts into images; the text's binary codes, those simple digits that computers use to stock information, are transposed into a unique corresponding visual. By this creative process, the shapes and colors of Ricardo Mbarkho’s art are constantly unveiling new facets of the initial texts.

Ricardo Mbarkho’s work stems from the vibrant scene of today’s global digital art practices. Mbarkho divulges alternative readings to issues pertaining to his local cultural and sociopolitical environments, where the latter’s significance and information are embodied and channeled through the artist’s own flux.

Mark Hachem Gallery invites the public to share the artist’s doubts and findings through Ricardo Mbarkho’s solo show, “Fine Pixels”.

Born in Beirut in 1974, Ricardo Mbarkho is an artist living in Lebanon.

He uses multiple mediums to reflect on (un)communicational situations. In his aesthetic approach, he questions a society where the breakdown of social cohabitation is preciously maintained and frozen into a continuous struggle over power and belonging. In his recent works, he manipulates different layers of significations by investigating multiple questions related to language, communication, creative industries, history of art as well as the visual representation within the sociopolitical sphere, where he uses the computer as a tool to transcend texts into images.